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George Meier, of Washington, bought this 1965 Pontiac GTO convertible aloof afterwards admission from Woodbridge High School in 1965.
Meier paid the sticker amount of $3,405 and has endemic it anytime since.
The quintessential beef car has undergone all-encompassing apology assignment over the years to accumulate it activity strong.
"It's consistently been a circadian driver," Meier says. "Everything has been adapted at atomic once."
The banal 389-cubic-inch V-8 agent and four-speed chiral manual were afresh rebuilt. Fueled by a four-barrel carburetor and active a Pontiac Safety Track positraction rear, the car's 325 application gives it affluence of get-up-and-go.
Meier, aloof 18 aback he bought the car, had the attendance of apperception to add banker options including abundant assignment suspension, radiator and alternator.
"The alone two added options were an AM/FM radio and bench belts," Meier says. "That's right, bench belts were alternative in '65." (Of course, Meier got them both).
The galloping "Goat," as the GTO is frequently referred to by muscle-car motorheads, additionally boasts a different color.
"Back again GM would acrylic your special-ordered car any blush that was in their palette," Meier says, "a branch acrylic job for $50, yup, 50 bucks. It was a 1963 Chevy blush and to my knowledge, abundance is the alone 1965 GTO convertible corrective Cordovan Brown. Truly a appropriate car from the outset."
Meier will appearance his acquiescently preserved GTO convertible at the GTO Association of Pennsylvania's anniversary Pontiac, Oldsmobile and Buick Car Appearance Sept. 21 at Star Buick and GMC in Lower Nazareth Township. For appearance information, appointment gtopa.org.
The car charcoal a circadian disciplinarian and can be apparent at breadth car shows or artlessly canoeing the streets in and about Washington.
"My wife Marilyn and I drive it on every nice day that comes along," Meier says. "The top goes bottomward in April and doesn't go aback up until October."
About his attenuate and admirable '65 Pontiac GTO convertible, Meier says, "It's a solid car. It's aloof got so abundant ability it snaps you aback in the seat. It'll bake the tires appropriate off. But I don't do that anymore. I'm accepting a little too old for that."
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